We are deeply saddened to report the passing of our Emeritus Professor Paul Friedrich on August 11, 2016. As a poet, anthropologist, and linguist, he left a wide range of exceptional publications on language. UPDATE: His memorial service on campus will take place at 4 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 2016 in Bond Chapel.

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to congratulate Justin B. Richalnd, Associate Professor of Anthropology, on his being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenhim Foundation on April 5, 2016. The Fellowship will support the completion of his project "Open Fields: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Future of Native American Ethnography."

It is with great sadness that we report the recent death, on October 1, 2015, of our colleague, Raymond T. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology. Professor Smith was a distinguished scholar of the Caribbean and the Americas whose research focused on kinship and family organization, class, race, poverty and gender. The view a memorial tribute and Professor Smith’s own website, click the link above.